i8o Hunting the Grisly 



As soon, however, as the old wilderness 

 hunter type passes away, hounds come into 

 use among his successors, the rough border 

 settlers of the backwoods and the plains. 

 Every such settler is apt to have four or five 

 large mongrel dogs with hound blood in them, 

 which serve to drive off beasts of prey from 

 the sheepfold and cattle-shed, and are also 

 used, when the occasion suits, in regular hunt 

 ing, whether after bear or deer. 



Many of the Southern planters have always 

 kept packs of fox-hounds, which are used in 

 the chase, not only of the gray and the red fox, 

 but also of the deer, the black bear, and the 

 wildcat. The fox the dogs themselves run 

 down and kill, but as a rule in this kind of 

 hunting, when after deer, bear, or even wild 

 cat, the hunters carry guns with them on their 

 horses, and endeavor either to get a shot at 

 the fleeing animal by hard and dexterous rid 

 ing, or else to kill the cat when treed, or the 

 bear when it comes to bay. Such hunting is 

 great sport. 



Killing driven game by lying in wait for it 

 to pass is the very poorest kind of sport that 

 can be called legitimate. This is the way 

 the deer is usually killed with hounds in the 

 East. In the North the red fox is often killed 



